PJ @pj@social.cleverlibre.org

@aebrockwell @hasmis @freemo

Reminds me of this #demotivator poster: **IDIOCY**
*Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.*
https://despair.com/products/idiocy

The exciting future of #energy is in Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)

➡️ Along with solar, wind, and water, more #diversity in the used technologies means better overall performance and #robustness.
➡️ Simpler #distribution with local clean and small-footprint #production means there is no need for long unsightly power-lines
➡️ Better #safety (smaller reactors and energy outputs means also smaller consequences of possible failure.

I'm waiting for the model below to install on my 1983 DeLorean😀:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/small-modular-reactors

@rosactrl

Maybe? What else can be done? I don't see the author having an alternative to what they call "Popperianism" that, as they state, "has a great deal to answer for the incalculable (sic) damage done not just to science but to human wellbeing"?

The falsification was never a problem for science. Without falsification, science would be just another "debate club" where all opinions and theories are equally valid. If all theories are not questioned and falsifiable ones discarded from science as a matter of principle, we may as well start teaching "flat Earth" theory in geography classes and "creationism" in biology and wait for the "incalculable" improvement this will bring to human well-being.

To think about it, maybe that's the author's idea of where science should be heading next.

@rosactrl

"Liberating" science from falsification will not help in convincing climate and other "skeptics" (actually ***deniers***) of its validity. Quite the contrary, it will just add fuel for more denying.

A better approach is to find better, creative ways of presenting scientific facts to the general public like in this case:

https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/300/video-climate-spiral/

**Radio Paradise** is having a party and you are invited:
***New Year's Eve VR Live Stream***
https://radioparadise.com/blog/new-years-eve-vr-livestream

I believe none of the stated *reasons* for revisiting "#Darwin'sDangerousIdea" in this most-read Guardian article of 2022 will have any effect on how "#ModernSynthesis" explains #Evolution.

For example:

1️⃣ "The study of the way *organisms alter their environment* in order to reduce the normal pressure of natural selection – think of beavers building dams" only shows that #NaturalSelection favors beavers *genetically programmed* to build better dams.

2️⃣ "The *Senegal bichir* adapting to land in a single generation” and *dung beetles* growing larger wings in cold weather only show the co-producing relationship between *nature* and *nurture* and the known fact that the ***same*** set of genes (*genotype*) will produce slightly different *phenotypes* in different environments. It surely does not explain *speciation*.

and lastly

3️⃣ I really don't see the difference between passing to the next generation randomly as opposed to artificially induced *mutations*. Natural selection will *"weed out"* one **and** the other the same way.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jun/28/do-we-need-a-new-theory-of-evolution

@DrJLCatlett

I have the feeling that the option does not apply to replies. Just to original toots.

@DrJLCatlett

Found it.
Thanks. I think mine was already set to "Public".

Just listening on
https://radioparadise.com/home
Beautifully weird

https://youtu.be/xNaDghdfo9g

I see there is a "Show replies" in the settings but it doesn't seem to work.
I see only toots that are boosted. Anyone?

I'm less interested in toots people I follow have boosted than I'm interested in some of their replies to other threads that I can find only if I go and check their profiles one by one. Is there a switch for fine tuning what appears in the timeline?

Is #Technology #ValueNeutral?

I would say YES because anything can be used either for good or for evil. Here is an interesting article that argues the opposite. Not sure how successfully though:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0162243919900965

Is there a way to include replies to others from instances I follow in my Home or/and Local timelines?

"The Many Faces of #Resilience"
by Ted G. Lewis. Very interesting article about #Complexity, Self-Organizing Criticality (#SOC), and preventing #CascadingFailures

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/1/267957-the-many-faces-of-resilience/fulltext

Mobs behave nothing like flocks of birds as this article would like you to believe. Even the author had to admit it at the end of the article.

#Murmuration is the result of birds blindly following a few simple #rules without any #leader, obvious #target, or "higher" #purpose, much like in #JConway's "#GameOfLife".

On the other side, there is nothing "spontaneous" in mobs. You can always identify the lead instigator, the target and it is pretty obvious what they want.

https://www.noemamag.com/how-online-mobs-act-like-flocks-of-birds/

@skyblond
You can also "see the whole music" (score, record) like you can see films, or you can listen to individual tones or sequences like you would watch a film frame.

What I think you are talking about is the difference between the *rate-independent* #production of their #structure(s) and the rate-dependcy of their #reproduction #process.

Producing a film, music piece or SW prgram can go on for months, be interupted and resumed at will, but its reproduction, to make any sense, must be uninterrupted and at a specific rate.

The world works on #difference and #change, both structural and/or temporal.

"Users flocking to the platform will need to shift their expectations for social media and become engaged democratic citizens in the life of their networks."
https://www.noemamag.com/mastodon-isnt-just-a-replacement-for-twitter/